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From: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.arpa (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: BIX: Why Bother?, and CompuServe?, GEnie info
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Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 23:33:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 26 23:33:44 1986
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GEnie has over 400 access numbers nation-wide.  XMODEM transfers are
almost as fast as micro-to-micro because the XMODEM protocol is built
into the local nodes.

Set your communication parameters to 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit,
1200 or 300 baud, and full-duplex.  Call 800-638-8369.  When you get
the CONNECT or ON-LINE message from your modem, type three H
characters (must be upper case, no RETURN needed) to sync baud rates
then wait until you see a 'U#=' from GEnie (User Number Equals?).
Type the following:

     ^RVJM11999,GENIE<cr>

where ^R is a control-R (which tells the local node to echo) and <cr>
is a carriage return.  You can omit the control-R if you prefer to do
your own local echo (the node defaults to that).  You will then be
able to run a free demo, and sign up if you wish.